The turf war between the Indian health ministry and office of the drug controller general of India (DCGI) rages on after the health ministry ‘put on hold’ the directives issued by the DCGI withdrawing powers from state governments to issue Certificates of Pharmaceutical Products (CoPP) – the export quality licence drug manufacturers require to sell their drugs to overseas buyers.
Solar power is on the rise. In 2008, the amount of energy generated by solar cells rose by 80%.
Technical breakthroughs in chemical development, process operations and modelling are necessary to meet the challenges encountered within the chemical and pharmaceutical industries today.
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As an atmospheric scientist, over the years I have developed a healthy obsession with sniffing air. Having worked in locations with some of the cleanest air on earth – including Cape Grim in the ‘roaring forties’ of the Southern Hemisphere, the tropical rainforests of Borneo and the Jungfraujoch, a 3500m high saddle point in the Swiss Alps – I know there is nothing quite like the smell of a city.
There are some signs of a recovery in the chemical sector, with chemical sales beginning to recover as the latest financial results from chemical and pharmaceutical majors are starting to demonstrate.
The economic crisis the world is still facing has brought vast amounts of data detailing what kind of losses should be expected, which companies are ‘dead men walking’ and what kind of miracles one might hope for as a result of solutions yet to be defined.
With diminishing fossil fuel reserves, great efforts are now being made worldwide to convert renewable biomass into fuels and value-added chemicals.
